About This Item


  • Call NumberSCHL_0700
  • TitleParallel parking
  • SummaryCaption: "Parallel parking on the Aetna Drivotrainer, a revolutionary new device for 'behind-the-wheel' driver training in the classroom [at Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades located at Nassau Avenue and Bedford Avenue], is first shown in captioned movie sequences like those to students seated [all back to camera] in 15 small Aetnacars, after which they practice the technique by 'driving' without benefit of instruction on roads depicted by motion pictures. Teaching with Drivotrainer, which was developed by the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, was inaugurated by the New York school system February 24."
  • Date[1953]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectBrooklyn High School of Automotive Trades (New York, N.Y.) ; Automobile driver education -- New York (State) -- New York ; Classrooms -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Schools: Public: High schools: Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades